Incredible Steve! Your skills and know-how just blow me away every time. I just don't know how you know where to start. This is where your years of experience give you the confidence to cut out all the crap and start again. I would be scared that I would never be able to rebuild it. Very well done mate.
I admire your ability to just get stuck in and cut the rot out. Years of practice and confidence in you own ability. Keep the videos coming. Wonderful.
That takes major skills to do what you Steve and Ryan do I'm truly blessed 🙌 to have discovered this channel it gives me something to look forward to..thanks guys for the upload I really appreciate it..much love to you all the best in the business ❤️.
Für mich die besten Videos auf diesen Kanal,da sieht mann wie sie das Blech bearbeiten mit verschiedenen Hilfmittel da steht ein können dahinter,wenn sich so mancher Restaurierer diese Videos ansehen würde gäbe es weniger abbrüche.
Most old cars have some history of poor repairs to get through a test but that was really poor for such a car, basically zero structure left as Porsche built it. Great job Steve, it's a pain in the bum chasing other peoples hacks.
I think you are a artist. Back A Yard in Jamaica artist work with wood carving stuff. You work with metal and make it just as good as previously, if not better mad respect.
Good work Steve - "Impossible" Maxima that everywhere else binned off is 3 days away from completion here - we've the sills left to do plus the "make it pretty" - which is a sub 2 week turn around on a project no other place would touch as it was "beyond repair". I want my medal... Yours is in the post. You deserve it too. :-)
Hi guys, not been well lately, catching up on all the videos, if anybody can do it, it's you guys 👌 Thankyou for all the interesting videos, much appreciated guys 👍
Great work - you make it look so easy. Be good if you did a bit more voice over of the big decision points. I really enjoy learning what you are doing and why. Keep up the great work - you are educating old and next generations alike!
At last. Ryan's got a running mate to keep the "Zed" company! Ein Ersatz Porshe'! I am glad it is in your good hands to remedy the cancer; all joking aside, the owner must be well and truly devastated as the project develops. Keep up with the excellent work, which makes this YCR Channel, so enjoyable to watch.
Another great Video Steve, you mate are the 'Rust Miester!' 😉😉....I've worked on many a rusty motor some years back, but never as bad as this!...Just feel sorry for the fella who owns it, but at the same time happy he'll get a proper sorted car in the end!....Keep up the good work! 💪💪
Wow ,I worked in Porsche parts in Newcastle and have supplied many parts to many bodyshops for all years of 911s but never seen one as riddled as this , fascinating to watch the fabrication and your skills , shame it's not a coupe as not a big targa fan ..still hooked on watching
Damn. Brings back crappy memories of my Fiat Barchetta. No panels available so i had to fabricate half a floor and both inner wheel arches. Yes i removed all the rot, but my repairs are not as pretty. You inspire my friend.....so bugger it.i am going into the garage right now to try and finish it...........thank you.
WOW, where does the rot and rust stop? Seems like as you cut off a rusty section, there was another rust section right behind it... But I am sure you know how to refinish it all to make it look factory or better again. Thumbs Up!
I think you need to remember that when this was "bodged up" someone just wanted it to go through a MOT and didn't want to spend a fortune, the alternative would have been to break it because it would be worth more in parts, thankfully that didn't happen, its paying Steve's bills and providing us with some good content
I watched some videos around this rusty 911. Not sure what model this is , but unless it’s a very rare model , all this effort will not pay back. The body shell is a real wreck. And all this body work is only a small part of the entire restoration. Hope you find a buyer that pays for your time and material. 😊😊
Hey dude! Don t whimp on what you got on your porsche rockers! You ve got rockers! I ain t got no more rockers just a big hole on both sides in my 1957 cadilkac!Loooooooooool!!!!!!!!!
Jesus Steve, the frightening thins in the forst video of this series, you'd say to yourself it looked pretty decent. Rotten as a pear underneath. Just goes to show, get the pros to do it and don't be arsing around with it yourself. Deathtrap the way it was. Imagine having an accident in that thing. It would just crumble the way it was. Keep up the great content lads, I love it!
It's competing with the Datsun for layer after layer of rot and horrible repairs. It more an exercise in building a new car by hand as there can't be much of the original metal left once you're done. Really interesting to watch. Lost track of what's been renewed so far.
Great video as usual having done one side no shock with the state of this side .do you ever have these cars chemically dipped before you start to expose everything bad
Wow these old UK cars are death traps. About 50% of the original steel either rusted away or poorly repaired. Big props to YCR for saving them and doing it properly.
Been watching these vids for a while now on TV. First time on my PC - so I can now comment 😀. Am wondering why Porsche made the hoses in the sills like a serviceable item (screws on clips etc) when there was no way of getting in to them without cutting the car apart. 🤔
Love the work, but how do you keep the sparks and grinding dust off the other cars around the workshop? I was cringing a couple of times when it looked like you wa shooting a big trail of sparks right at the Aston behind the Porsche
Man i wonder if my sills on my 911 were that bad, when i sold it they did say it had some rust on the sills.....it was a 1980 so pretty old ...this is why you have to be careful of barn finds... they end up costing you more money than you bargained for.
its a wonder the doors didnt open when you drove over a bump that shell must have been seriously compromised, and losing that folded edge will have weakened it, I wonder which gimp carried out that work ?
We do use rust convertor but only on the surface rust that's left. We never just convert flaky rust in hope that it makes a strong sections as I have seen other do before. It never works :)
If I was the owner of that thing, I honestly would get or make a new body for it. At that point the repair is going go be brutally expensive anyway, I would prefer to start from scratch and have something clean and durable at the end of the day.
Yeah, but ehmm...... this construction the previous user made was to make the car lighter! (that should be the reason🙄). Although all the thick welds make up for that. Really if this car would have been chemically dipped first there would have been nothing left. Pff. On a given moment i would not dare to come to the workplace, frightened what disaster i would find next. With so many rotten bodyparts, how do you fabricate the new panels? You cant remember how the old panel looked, or do you? Thanks for the video again!
Your keeping the steel business going lol, but on a serious note these vehicles you work on are F"cked . The sanding and grinding suppliers are filling their pockets 😂
Imagine, somebody at some point sold this car to an easy victim as a fully restored old thing. The new owner driving it, as a Porsche should, ignorant of the actual state of the car. Who, in their right mind, would commit such a crime?
Couldn’t agree more. After uncovering this, one wonders how much more evidence would be needed to bring a court case against them for wilful negligence?
Hi, I'm sure there is a valid reason but why don't you have these rotten cars media blasted or dipped to remove all the rust, wouldn't it be easier than trying to clean all the rust off by hand..? Pete
You call this series a Porsche 911 restomod, when it is proving to be a handbuilt beauty. Would love to see what you and the rest of the crew in your shop could create with your combined skills, some prototype on the level of what Shelby did many years ago. There's no doubt you have the talent to craft and build something amazing out of sheet metal. Perhaps, fabricate and combine several different cars to make one, borrowing the styling, sort of how there's a 567 Chevy where the '55, '56 and '57 were slammed to gether. ruclips.net/video/00sDhpHZuTU5/видео.html
That is some dogshit bodge work some previous business or person has done to that poor old Porsche. Good luck on piecing that one back together. Good thing there's half decent repair panels available 😉
The whole thing is just 'orrid. I hope that your customer thinks that the car is worth what it's going to cost to have such extensive restoration done. He or she has my sympathy, but it makes good viewing for the rest of us.
It really must be soul destroying when you uncover bodge jobs like this. Rust damage is bad enough but when you find ham fisted effort like this you must feel like packing it in - brilliant work on your part though however
When you repair the car, it makes me very happy for you and I don't get tired of you and the information you write to the followers
Watching a true tradesman at work is such a privilege. We don’t value people enough. Thanks Steve
Thank you for the kind words Mark :)
Love that no nonsense approach Steve. Only comes with experience, kudos to you.
Thank you Steve. We really do appreciate the encouragement :)
It is so good that you are doing RUclips videos in order for people to appreciate the art/work that you do
Thank you we do try :)
Incredible Steve! Your skills and know-how just blow me away every time. I just don't know how you know where to start. This is where your years of experience give you the confidence to cut out all the crap and start again. I would be scared that I would never be able to rebuild it. Very well done mate.
It’s grim when that mouse nest is structural….
😅😅 👍
😂😂😂
God, that is golden! 😂😂👏👏👏🇦🇺
😂😂😳😂😂
I admire your ability to just get stuck in and cut the rot out. Years of practice and confidence in you own ability. Keep the videos coming. Wonderful.
I’m fighting the same battle over on my channel,rescuing a 74 911. Thanks for sharing.
-Spanky
Great work Steve as always 👍👍
Thank you as always Lee :)
Obi Won Kanobi with that cut off wheel!! Guy is straight up ninja💪💪
That takes major skills to do what you Steve and Ryan do I'm truly blessed 🙌 to have discovered this channel it gives me something to look forward to..thanks guys for the upload I really appreciate it..much love to you all the best in the business ❤️.
Thank you David the kind words are appreciated :)
Steve, you make an angle grinder look like a surgical instrument, much respect for all your work and that if the whole team.🙏👏🇦🇺
Thank you :)
I was thinking the same thing. I’m still fighting my 911 build on my channel. Not as bad as this though.
-Spanky
That's so bad even the mouse moved out you guy's have the patience of a saint. 👌
Fancy that! A mouse with it's own Porsche. 😀
Mouse with tast :)
Steve Another superb and instructive video. Cannot wait for the next installment.
Thank you David :)
Für mich die besten Videos auf diesen Kanal,da sieht mann wie sie das Blech bearbeiten mit verschiedenen Hilfmittel da steht ein können dahinter,wenn sich so mancher Restaurierer diese Videos ansehen würde gäbe es weniger abbrüche.
Thank you for the videos.
Holy Swiss cheese, Batman. What a horror. But I know you will do the right thing, Steve. Keep up the good work! Always a pleasure to watch your work.
Good stuff man and a grinder fearless
Most old cars have some history of poor repairs to get through a test but that was really poor for such a car, basically zero structure left as Porsche built it. Great job Steve, it's a pain in the bum chasing other peoples hacks.
I think you are a artist. Back A Yard in Jamaica artist work with wood carving stuff. You work with metal and make it just as good as previously, if not better mad respect.
Thank you again :)
NICE Work 👍👍👍👍👍
Great work Steve but never ending on that 911!
Good work Steve - "Impossible" Maxima that everywhere else binned off is 3 days away from completion here - we've the sills left to do plus the "make it pretty" - which is a sub 2 week turn around on a project no other place would touch as it was "beyond repair". I want my medal... Yours is in the post. You deserve it too. :-)
Hi guys, not been well lately, catching up on all the videos, if anybody can do it, it's you guys 👌 Thankyou for all the interesting videos, much appreciated guys 👍
Brilliant mate
Great work - you make it look so easy. Be good if you did a bit more voice over of the big decision points. I really enjoy learning what you are doing and why. Keep up the great work - you are educating old and next generations alike!
Yep agree a lot more voice over would be better even if it was added post video, hearing what the guys have to say would be a lot better than music
Amazing job your doing
Amazing job your doing on this Steve it is a mammoth job but your smashing it ! 🏴👍🏻
At last. Ryan's got a running mate to keep the "Zed" company! Ein Ersatz Porshe'! I am glad it is in your good hands to remedy the cancer; all joking aside, the owner must be well and truly devastated as the project develops. Keep up with the excellent work, which makes this YCR Channel, so enjoyable to watch.
Excellent work Steve, I find it mesmerising watching
Another great Video Steve, you mate are the 'Rust Miester!' 😉😉....I've worked on many a rusty motor some years back, but never as bad as this!...Just feel sorry for the fella who owns it, but at the same time happy he'll get a proper sorted car in the end!....Keep up the good work! 💪💪
Thank you, all the kind words are always appreciated and encourage us to keep making vids :)
Wow ,I worked in Porsche parts in Newcastle and have supplied many parts to many bodyshops for all years of 911s but never seen one as riddled as this , fascinating to watch the fabrication and your skills , shame it's not a coupe as not a big targa fan ..still hooked on watching
Thank you we do try
After seeing the 911, the Manta and the Datsun, Mat‘s BMW doesn’t look so bad.
Yer it's not so bad. We have done worst :)
Damn. Brings back crappy memories of my Fiat Barchetta. No panels available so i had to fabricate half a floor and both inner wheel arches. Yes i removed all the rot, but my repairs are not as pretty. You inspire my friend.....so bugger it.i am going into the garage right now to try and finish it...........thank you.
Great video 👍The important part is the sill edge or"rib" because it also has a stiffing element part to play in the crash performance!
God this rust is real killer for cars,gl with this 1 brother!🤔🤔😮😮😮😮🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thanks for great videos!
Good work Steve. There seems to be more patch than car!!
WOW, where does the rot and rust stop? Seems like as you cut off a rusty section, there was another rust section right behind it... But I am sure you know how to refinish it all to make it look factory or better again. Thumbs Up!
It must be soul destroying to repair someone else’s botched up work, doing a brilliant job 👍👍👍
I think you need to remember that when this was "bodged up" someone just wanted it to go through a MOT and didn't want to spend a fortune, the alternative would have been to break it because it would be worth more in parts, thankfully that didn't happen, its paying Steve's bills and providing us with some good content
The rust is like a nightmare
To some maybe but I love making it better :)
I watched some videos around this rusty 911. Not sure what model this is , but unless it’s a very rare model , all this effort will not pay back. The body shell is a real wreck. And all this body work is only a small part of the entire restoration. Hope you find a buyer that pays for your time and material. 😊😊
It's not our car it's a customers as are most of our cars, but thank you for your comments :)
What a mess, interesting to see this cars lifesaving progress, i can only have a cold sweat when i think of the fabrication bill.
The bill is nowhere near what you think :)
Well i wasnt implying that you guys were expensive but alot of work like this especially quality work shouldnt be undercharged.
Looks like a tricky job..😮 Good luck. We know it's your speciality...😊
i would be wondering if i would ever get it back together, great work
How do you estimate the cost of a restoration like this Steve? impossible to know how much work until the layers are peeled off!
From 7:50 to 8:00 I thought I was looking at the current state of the Titanic 😂
Hey dude!
Don t whimp on what you got on your porsche rockers!
You ve got rockers!
I ain t got no more rockers just a big hole on both sides in my 1957 cadilkac!Loooooooooool!!!!!!!!!
Jesus Steve, the frightening thins in the forst video of this series, you'd say to yourself it looked pretty decent. Rotten as a pear underneath. Just goes to show, get the pros to do it and don't be arsing around with it yourself. Deathtrap the way it was. Imagine having an accident in that thing. It would just crumble the way it was. Keep up the great content lads, I love it!
I have met some good doctors but you are reviving the dead
Haha thank you :)
It's competing with the Datsun for layer after layer of rot and horrible repairs. It more an exercise in building a new car by hand as there can't be much of the original metal left once you're done. Really interesting to watch. Lost track of what's been renewed so far.
It's worse than the Datsun!!!😮 great vid again
Not quite haha :)
Same as the other side but more work to bee done😎👍
Yes unfortunately it's much worse haha
Great video as usual having done one side no shock with the state of this side .do you ever have these cars chemically dipped before you start to expose everything bad
It's always upto the customer, but it's a lot more money as there is a lot of work removing everything prior to dipping.
Wow these old UK cars are death traps. About 50% of the original steel either rusted away or poorly repaired. Big props to YCR for saving them and doing it properly.
Thank you :) I can't wait to finish sh getting my rx4 on the road :)
Steve. Please put a mask on when you are cutting, grinding or sanding, etc. You'll regret it in a few years time when you get COPD.😢
Thank you I will try to remember :)
I don't know how you keep going with all these rust buckets! i would have just given up with that amount of work need doing.
Been watching these vids for a while now on TV. First time on my PC - so I can now comment 😀. Am wondering why Porsche made the hoses in the sills like a serviceable item (screws on clips etc) when there was no way of getting in to them without cutting the car apart. 🤔
Love the work, but how do you keep the sparks and grinding dust off the other cars around the workshop? I was cringing a couple of times when it looked like you wa shooting a big trail of sparks right at the Aston behind the Porsche
When do you stop cutting.
OMG That's a lot of work.
Good job.
Man i wonder if my sills on my 911 were that bad, when i sold it they did say it had some rust on the sills.....it was a 1980 so pretty old ...this is why you have to be careful of barn finds... they end up costing you more money than you bargained for.
its a wonder the doors didnt open when you drove over a bump that shell must have been seriously compromised, and losing that folded edge will have weakened it, I wonder which gimp carried out that work ?
'Keeps getting bigger" !!
It dose :)
Yak. Another pants job by "Rodger the Bodger". Still, it's in good hands.
This is a bit of a rust bucket, scary!.
This gift keeps giving...!
Try to test rust convertor. I saw many videos with people using this chemical to remove rust but I never tried it on my car.
We do use rust convertor but only on the surface rust that's left. We never just convert flaky rust in hope that it makes a strong sections as I have seen other do before. It never works :)
If I was the owner of that thing, I honestly would get or make a new body for it. At that point the repair is going go be brutally expensive anyway, I would prefer to start from scratch and have something clean and durable at the end of the day.
Yeah, but ehmm...... this construction the previous user made was to make the car lighter! (that should be the reason🙄). Although all the thick welds make up for that.
Really if this car would have been chemically dipped first there would have been nothing left.
Pff. On a given moment i would not dare to come to the workplace, frightened what disaster i would find next.
With so many rotten bodyparts, how do you fabricate the new panels? You cant remember how the old panel looked, or do you?
Thanks for the video again!
Moth of the panels for this car have been purchased so makes life a lot easier otherwise this car would truly be a nightmare :)
And I thought the Datsun was a disaster! 😮
It's is 😂
What a mess. The former work is a nightmare.
Love the craftsmanship. But you guys need some respirators bad. Breathing in all that has got to not be all that good for you...
We sometimes forget :)
That certainly has some tin worm
Your keeping the steel business going lol, but on a serious note these vehicles you work on are F"cked . The sanding and grinding suppliers are filling their pockets 😂
911💪
There is genuinely more rust than car there 😮
🤔 Rust is the structural part of the construction here.
Imagine, somebody at some point sold this car to an easy victim as a fully restored old thing. The new owner driving it, as a Porsche should, ignorant of the actual state of the car.
Who, in their right mind, would commit such a crime?
Couldn’t agree more. After uncovering this, one wonders how much more evidence would be needed to bring a court case against them for wilful negligence?
Hi, I'm sure there is a valid reason but why don't you have these rotten cars media blasted or dipped to remove all the rust, wouldn't it be easier than trying to clean all the rust off by hand..? Pete
It's all down to the customer as these are not our own cars :)
What is the pipe u have taken of
That’s a hand full
You call this series a Porsche 911 restomod, when it is proving to be a handbuilt beauty. Would love to see what you and the rest of the crew in your shop could create with your combined skills, some prototype on the level of what Shelby did many years ago. There's no doubt you have the talent to craft and build something amazing out of sheet metal. Perhaps, fabricate and combine several different cars to make one, borrowing the styling, sort of how there's a 567 Chevy where the '55, '56 and '57 were slammed to gether. ruclips.net/video/00sDhpHZuTU5/видео.html
What is this Porsches history, was it parked in the sea on a nightly basis, the corrosion is epic, is that typical of this model?
In the old days, before galvanisation, almost all cars fail like this in due course.
What a bad repair on this high price car. But now it would be right.
Yes but I guess the repair kept the car on the road :)
Dansk profits must have doubled since you started this car
Haha maybe they would sponsor us :)
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Still not as rusty as my old Ford Capri 😂😂
Is this economically viable in any way?
It's worth way more than it costs to repair so yes :)
Then those 911 must fetch a hefty price. 😮
the disaster Porsche :-) have fun!
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Has this car been made before? And it rotted again. I must tell the owner to stop parking it in the pool.
Déjà vu
Fucking hell.... if it would not be Porsche - i would scrap it.....
It's quite bad :)
That is some dogshit bodge work some previous business or person has done to that poor old Porsche. Good luck on piecing that one back together. Good thing there's half decent repair panels available 😉
It would be a mare without them haha
Jigsaw
The whole thing is just 'orrid. I hope that your customer thinks that the car is worth what it's going to cost to have such extensive restoration done. He or she has my sympathy, but it makes good viewing for the rest of us.
is there any car that is not RUST ?
It really must be soul destroying when you uncover bodge jobs like this. Rust damage is bad enough but when you find ham fisted effort like this you must feel like packing it in - brilliant work on your part though however
God it looks hopeless
Bonjour des porcs qui avait réparer la voiture avant vous 😌 pas très intéressant de passer derrière c'est gens la